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Daughters Dicker for DiaryTwo days after a controversial diary describing the Battle of the Alamo was sold to two unidentified Texans, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas library in San Antonio offered the new owners a secure home for it in their collections. The manuscript, allegedly the diary of Col. José Enrique de la Peña, a staff officer with the Mexican Army when the Alamo fell in 1836, was purchased in a Hollywood auction on November 18, according to the Dallas Morning News. "There is no more appropriate place for the diary than the ground of the Alamo where events transpired that produced this extensive document," read the offer, signed by DRT library director Elaine Davis. The diary has been at the John Peace Library at the University of Texas/San Antonio for 25 years. Scholars have cast doubt on the diary's authenticity, especially since it portrays Davy Crockett and other Alamo heroes in an unfavorable light--captured and executed rather than fighting to the end--but others consider it genuine. Posted December 7, 1998. |
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